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  • who else is here because they watched it when it was aired, eather than being told by some other numpty to watch it?

  • also id appreciate if they uploader didnt remove my comment especially as they are genuine!

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  • it was also badly acted and very shit and i was 12 at the time.especially the end where the fucking ghost attacks the studio where its being filmed.

  • i remember someone killed themselves when this aired and thats when the shit hit the fan.thats why it was banned.

  • FUCK YOUR PARANORMAL ACTVITY

  • It's weird how this doesn't get as much recognition as it should

  • um... Is it just me or is the acting hilariously bad. I'm literally chcukling away watching this.

  • O.o wouu this no is real......luego dijeron y confesaron ke esto no es verdad

  • Just to clarify, this is staged but is based on real events.

  • Does anyone know where I can download English subtitles (srt)? I've searched the whole web but I can't find it nowhere.

  • @Soulencrypta But...it's in English already.

  • @cinderellacomplex7 Yeah I know, but I'm from Holland and I miss whole parts of the conversation just by listening; when I see the words it is easier for me to understand.

  • this is activity paranormal o ghostwatch

  • shit me up when i was 11yrs

  • watch it whilst home alone in the dark at night.

  • I'm watchin it at the moment and it seems so staged

  • i'll watch this later...

  • @raploch2010 I take it you'll watch this later?

  • i'll watch this later...

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  • Holy shit

  • Wow! This is... really bad.

  • Just a heads up for everyone, they have released the DVD for this again, its only £3 in Morrisons!

  • press 4 for UBER-natural.

  • What is Donald Trump doing there at 4:32 ?

  • Why was this bannned??

  • @sashacosta when aired 92 peole thought it was real and someone was that disturbed killed themselves was finally realeased on dvd 2003

  • This scared the living shit out of me. I was 9.

  • lol @ the picture above the fireplace with the typical ghost sheet image ... lmao

  • at 6:13 i thought he said 'she shat it' haha

  • How could anyone mistake this for being real? Some footage is clearly shot to look fictional.

  • Imagine if this was presented by Alan Partridge!

  • That was a very unlucky night all across the British Isles. A massive haunting in suburban London, and the first in a series of giant killer snake attacks at a wizard boarding school up in Scotland.

  • It was good for it's time. I watched it when I got bored with ITV that evening and switched over to find this on so I wasn't aware it was fake. should have worked it out from the bad acting from the kids.

    But my daughter was watching as well and she was nine. scared the living daylights out of her.

    So many people complained. 30,000 calls from viewers who thought it was real.

    It was taken from the case of the Enfield Poltergiest. Unfortunately it has led to crap like Most Haunted.

  • shit my pants when i 1st saw this..

  • @trvius it should be Paranormal Activity: Prequel

  • whwnever watch stuf like this Im not scared at all. but at night...... ITS DAMN QUIET AND SCARY.

  • Paranormal Activity: The Prologue

  • This scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid, I didn't sleep well that night...

  • hehe i remember watching this as a kid, couldn't sleep that night watched tv till mornning, i kept looking behind me just in case pipes was there.

  • wow craig charles was still a twat even in 92, i wonder if he was winning then ? duh

  • @paranorma1palace Why is he a twat? I'm sure more people would rather watch him than you.

  • @Dave70100

    i wouldnt bet on it, hes a crack smoking tard

  • @paranorma1palace There's nothing wrong with a little toot on the rock. You're just a pussy if you can't handle it that's all. Plus Lister was the bollocks. Smeg.

  • @bangtokhammer

    hes deffo a twat,now even more so, il bet you couldnt listen to the prick on radio 2 for more than 30 seconds without switcing it off, hes knobhead

    i wouldnt like to be the guy who cleans the floors

    with all the crack smokin on robot wars :)

  • @paranorma1palace That's quite a poem..

  • Mike smith.. Donald trump?

  • I was 12 at the time, and yes I got sucked in, even with the bad acting...was traumatized, Even my mum proceeded to spend the rest of the night flushing the toilet and throwing rocks against the garage door just to shit me up. Yeah...my mum rules...now I'm more traumatized by Craig Charles thinking he has a hilarious sense of humor when in reality, he just looks and acts like a pedophile.

  • This was brilliant ! !

  • Who else is here because of Charlie Brooker?

  • When you see the awful acting here it's difficult to believe people actually bought this as real.

  • this was all staged people..!!

  • @c6gav  erm duh

  • Did you know that you can make any person in the UK between the age of 24 and 32 cry just by whispering the word, “Pipes!” in their ear?

    We are called the “Scarred Generation”.

  • kind of makes me think of paranormal activity- same situation, only different time

  • @sslohier, i think this is really ahead of its time for what it was.

  • I watched this when I was 9, thinking it was real. Fucked me up big time, I didn't sleep for 4 damn nights after seeing it!!!

  • LMAO at that ghost picture above the fireplace

  • Downloading from pirate bay

  • @A1295N good man

  • I remeber watching this when i was like 7, i had nightmares about it for ages afterwards! lol looking back now it all seems so fake though.

  • looks like donald trump on the thumbnail lol

  • No been shown on English TV since the night it broadcast, well i think the 20th anniversary deserves another broadcast :P

  • @TheGudZeBadAnDaFozzy Or something along the same lines but new and unexpected. Get in the same writer and a good team and do something equally scary to get the next generation.

  • im about to watch this before going to bed, what a bad idea

  • how could people believe such bad acting

  • @youngmasterpete very easily it seemed

  • I was almost expecting Pedobear to come into the room at some point.

  • I hope Pathe Video remains haunted for eternity. I paid £29 for a DVD of this programme - direct from Pathe a couple of years ago, only to see it now, in several parts on YouTube!!!! I realise Pathe haven't put it on YouTube, but I wish I'd known it was on here. And to add insult to injury, my bloody pipes are banging again and there's a cabbage smell coming from my cupboard. I can't watch anything in peace!

  • I remember this being aired. There were so many people that really did believe it !

  • I know people are all tough and saying it's fake now, but trust me this was different back in the 90s, when i was like 10 or something, reality tv was something of the distant future, and, more importantly, i believed in ghosts as did pretty much the whole country back then!!!!

  • This scared the mortal piss out of me when I was 12.

  • the so called actors totally ruin this. It was quite scary when i first watched it. Now it just comes across as a bad episode of eastenders! no one really talks like that! love to hear what American viewers think though.

  • the fact that lin pascoe was in Touch of Frost, must've been a dead giveaway

  • This takes me back to Halloween night in 1992. I was so scared and thought it was real. I'll never forget it and it still feels like yesterday.

  • Why do I get the feeling the movie Paranormal Activity may have been partly inspired by this, other than the Blair Witch Project?

    I heard there was complaints from the British public, but I like it! Thanks for posting!

  • @Schone23666 Oh there totally was, bit silly really considering that it was stated before the programme went on air that it was all fake!

  • Oh this takes me back. 11 years old and absolutely drenched with sweat after the whole ideal. My mum was doing my hair whilst watching it and suffice to say it was still have undone by the end. Emilio Sylvestri stands out in my mind...

  • Is it me or dos that Mike Smith look like Donald Trump? o_O

  • what a young looking craig charles, i was only four when this was on air lol

  • what a young looking craig charles x

  • Why would they want to fake shit like this? ratings,money. there fucking scumbags in my opinion along with most haunted,ghost hunters,ghost adventures, paranormal state. there is no REAL evidence that ghosts are real. it,s just that people who haven,t got a strong mind that make shit up and add fuel to the fire.

  • @santclause1 I think in all fairness, they did say before the programme went on air that this was all scripted and fake - unlike Most Haunted where they actually say that it's all "real" when we all know that they blatantly fake it, lol.

  • @PuffyAmiYumi. when it first aired they didn,t say it was fake. they made out it was a real family with a real problem. hence why they banned it. because people thought it was real and started panicking.

  • @santclause1 Oh was it? I thought the producers said they did give a warning of some sort when I watched the Bite Back at Ghostwatch.

  • @santclause1 Actually there was a warning at the start of the show, but a lot of people missed it because they were watching the end of a movie on the other side. Now people have altered their memories to make the story more interesting and make it look like a giant hoax, but the truth is, they DID say it wasn't real, just one that a lot of people missed. It was even listed as a drama in the TV guides.

  • This scared the shite out of me when it was on in '92 when I was 12

  • Happy 18th birthday ghostwatch lol

  • lollollollol

  • hahahah i love craig charles especially when he says "ive taken the valium man"

  • this is the fakest shit ive eva seen. Who the fuck wud think this were real/scary???

  • I shat myself watching this as a 13 year old.

    Hope the Beeb repeat it this year.

  • this was so obviously faked

    because the woman who plays the mum of the 2 girls

    is an actress and was in an episode of cracker.

  • @AimeeBekkaNeate derr it wasn't meant to be serious

  • @AimeeBekkaNeate That's the idea you stupid fuck.

  • all together now, WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

  • I remember this well, i recorded it , and so glad i did, its not been broadcast on bbc or any other channel since with permission .

  • @streamstars oh shut up man

  • I remember this, and all the complaints it got from stupid people who said "I shouldn't have had to watch the" yeah like there wasn't other channels you could have been 'forced' to watch that night.

    What worked is the suttle bits like 'Pips' behind the curtains (shadow) rather than the big flash/bang bits and using a regular house rather than the old victorian manor houses.

    People the flagship for programs like Most Haunted.

  • I remember this, and all the complaints it got from stupid people who said "I shouldn't have had to watch the" yeah like there wasn't other channels you could have been 'forced' to watch that night.

    People the flagship for programs like Most Haunted.

  • This brings back memories. I was 16 when this was shown, and remember all of the complaints that came flooding in after it was shown. If this had been shown nowadays, it probably wouldn't have worked, with other things like Most Haunted and Ghost Hunters on Sky etc, but back in '92 I guess there wasn't really anything else like this on? It was quite a clever thing to show at the time. I must admit when the ghost is briefly seen standing in front of the curtains, I nearly dropped my lunch!

  • i lad hung himself.

  • there where 1000s of complaints from viewers thinking it was real, i was scared to death, only right at the end did i realize all wasnt wat we thought,but it was great prog and it was on ova halloween.

    i remember my cousin ringing me up on the phone cryin sayin ( plz tell me this isnt real )!!!

    and to think most haunted live started only a few years later,just think it could have been sarah green and mike smith mhl not evette and carl

    was briliant to watch, and huge thanx for uploading it xx

  • why was this show banned?

  • I still have nightmares caused by this show to this day! I watched it in a hotel room in scotland on a family holiday. I had the same 'cat noise nightmare' last night and it inspired me to look for this video. I was 10 or so at the time. proper scary!

  • 2:26 lol!!

  • it was reviled to be a hoaxs

  • @paulthedragon1 No kidding?

  • it makes you think how sad and pathetic ppl are in the world believing that this is real

  • @Gwazz123 But many did, 1992 was a different time.

  • @SlightyDisturbedNBK indeed, the difference between now and then is hard to overstate. It might not be much to say youtube wasn't around then, but to think that neither was the internet...or even personal computers. Back then television was the only media and was therefore the world!

  • I was 8 at the time and I genuinely think this program cause some kind of post traumatic dissuader. I never slept with the door closed, and insisted i had the landing light on at night. Watching it now as an adult, i still think it is unnecessarily grim and discussing! What was the disembowelled pregnant dog in the park got to do with it!!??? And why make the ghost, that is haunting 2 small girls, a suspected pedophile!!!??? I can see why in 1992 it caused such a backlash. Maybe not now though.

  • When I first saw this I poo-poo'd my pants and have slept with the light on ever since. I was 43 then. Now I'm 61.

    Just kidding.

  • i can remember when this was on tv i shit myself to i thought it was real until the end when they had that shitty ending in the studio, i had such a big crush on sarah green when i was at school i spent many a night wanking over picks of her lol wonder wot shes doing now ??????

  • @4:29 Mike Smith seems to be posessed by Donald Trump's hair!

  • Nice post! Not seen this since it was originally shown in 92. Kudos.

  • As a matter of fact, the online paranormal investigation group I'm part of is doing a case right now, and we seem to be dealing with an entity that appears rather similar to our esteemed Mr. Pipes...

  • ITS LISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This already kicks ass at 3:50 in...fake or not this is cool.

    Red Dwarf FTW!

  • Why does it look and sound so much like Most Haunted Live?

    i almost expect to see Yvette Fielding and Derek Acorah to come on. lol

  • Well at least now i know where MOST HAUNTED LIVE got their show idea.

  • if anyone did watch this during it origial broadcasting did you phone them and if u did what happened?

  • The kids are pretty bad actors.

  • This is so full of crap and a disgrace to the paranormal world, what losers!

  • @bbw9970 This is ENTERTAINMENT! Plus, think of how many paranormal investigators today got into the field after watching this.

  • and then a skeleton popped out

  • I was 13 when Ghost Watch was on; Halloween 1992. I didn't know it was a mockumentary and thought it was real, until it got ridiculous towards the end. By then, I was practically shitting myself anyway and couldn't sleep for 3 nights afterwards. It culminated on the third night when I awoke to hear something rustling next to me. It went on for about a minute and then something touched my head. I was shitting myself, only to then realize it was my football posters peeling off the wall above me.

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  • this wasent banned , where the hell did you get that idea from ?

  • @MrMorgansgoat People just write ”banned” on their Youtube videos to get more views.

  • @MrMorgansgoat this was indeed banned after causing an almighty outburst my good man, do your research...

  • @KillerDiaguR Are you some sort of fucking idiot ? Dont tell me to do my research without checking your own facts stupid cunt, it was never banned , it never needed to be banned , they only wanted to show it once anyway !

    Why the fuck would they ban something that had already only been shown the only time it was ever going to be shown ? Exactly , fucking idiot.

  • @MrMorgansgoat get your dad to wash your mouth out shitbird. talk to me like that in real life and your teeth'd be getting knocked in. don't bother replying cos this is a one and only, i don't usually waste my time but you managed to annoy me.

  • @MrMorgansgoat I think you do actually need to do your research, The BBC did indeed put a decade-long ban on this show after the controversy it caused.

  • It was great to watch at the time 'but it wasn't long before we knew it was a set-up , it was way back when the BBC had a little argument about why we had to buy a licence to watch it's programms ' after it was screened the BBC phone lines were flooded with complaints by pathetic adults ( HA !) who were scared shitless !... some people are brought up wraped in cotton wool all thier lives and have problems adjusting to adult entertainment

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  • i was 9 and this scared me so much i didn't even get to the end to find out it was fictional! I was a truly traumatised young mind. in its defence tho my buddy who wasn't scared at all by it started using the word pipes as a nickname for those hard-to-flush turds that get left behind in the toilet for the next person to discover. "OMG it's pipes!!!" that was f*cking funny.

  • @KillerDiaguR

    Funny xD

  • jajajaj leon

    

  • It was VERY irresponsible of them to pass it off as a serious documentary and then scare the Bejeezus out of everyone!

  • @cottonwhiskersuk

    They didn't know it was going to affect people so badly. In their defense, they did catch a lot of shit for it and they DID issue an apology.

  • Why do you people say this is scary i had about 2 ghost exeriences already and im only 12!

  • i havent seen this in yrs ty so much 4 the upload

  • Remember this when it came out,I was 11 and it scared the shit out of me,watching again it's quite funny really,but well put together.

  • iT WOULD BE IRONIC IF THE HOST MICHAEL PARKINSON SUFFERED FROM

    PARKINSON'S DISEASE..

  • lol

  • That guy's beard is supernatural.

  • I remember this!

  • this scared the shit out of me for months think i was 11 at the time this was out XD

  • I've never seen this before, but saw it mentioned on 100 Greatest Scary Moments, and though, I WANT TO SEE THIS!

  • a great Halloween prank! I bet if this was done today it would have the same "war of the worlds" effect...especially since there's a hundred shows on TV about the paranormal.

  • I watched this in 1992 when it was shown live and it was the topic at work the next day, it scared me at the time too

  • I was a kid when i saw this and it scared the shit outta me gave me whilst additionally giving me trouble sleeping at night for about a week or more after. All that despite that after my mother told me that her cousin knew the woman at 5:42 in the film who was trying to become an actress. I think the fact that they used believable people like Parkinson made it more truthful to the untrained eye. it was pretty manipulative as well as disturbing for 'innocent' kids like myself once were.

  • You do realise people commit suicide after watching this

  • @MusicFreshTV Please, explain.Or give links to verify this.

  • I keep expecting Chris Morris to pop up.

  • @letsbeone Good Man :D

  • My daughter has just been studying H G WELLS THE WAR OF THE WORLDS and she could'nt believe that when it was first aired in the us some people thought it was fof real.... So I said I remember Ghostwatch on BBC 1, A

  • ..And some people thought this was, some strange people addmittedly, It's still worth 5 stars anywho!

  • I cant believe i have now found this video. I was just thinking about it the other day. I was 10 when i first watched this and was terrified when i went to bed. I thought it was real until now. I have just wasted an hour watching this and what a lot of rubbish. How crap is the mother, her daughters and the woman in the studio at acting. I thought coronation street was bad but this takes the biscuit, No wonder it was banned

  • You probably still crapping your pants. hahahahahaha.

  • and another sad fact by me was the ghost expert (whom was a former fav as mine ,as a young teen nudge nudge)was the nescafe coffe bird with that bloke of buffy or (and with)garath hunt(the advengers) ps(bracket ,open ,shut ) (bores me rotton)

  • it was also show live at 09:30pm

  • as a 14yo watching this first time around the first half an hour scared me shitless and then yea ok its acted,even the screen 1 title(wot was the bbc drama title)i didnt think.the ending was scraped as the ghost was supposed to come to the tv camra at the end and thus into your home ,true fact that

  • @2walsall well i was 12 when i saw it and am glad that ending was scrapped lol

  • i did i have nightmares

  • The first bit, with the girls, is so obviously acted, I wonder if they'd get away with that now, or if people would suss it out straight away!?

  • hey a minute... LISTER????

  • How did this give anyone nightmares? 8|